Kurt Vonnegut Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Life, Happiness, Wisdom

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.5, Dial Press

• And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Kurt Vonnegut (2017). “A Man Without a Country”, p.132, Dial Press

• A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

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  Love, Life, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Nov 05, 2014

• We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

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  Life, Beautiful, Faith

  Kurt Vonnegut (2016). “If This Isn't Nice What Is? (Much) Expanded Second Edition: The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By”, p.131, RosettaBooks

• There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

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  Love, Life, People

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.18, Dial Press

• Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow - whether there is a market for it or not! The kick of creation is the act of creating, not anything that happens afterward. I would tell all of you watching this screen: Before you go to bed, write a four line poem. Make it as good as you can. Don't show it to anybody. Put it where nobody will find it. And you will discover that you have your reward.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Life, Writing, Creativity

• How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

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  Life, Nice, Numbness

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.140, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Life, Music, God

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from May 11, 2015

• Well here you are, there it is, THIS is what it's all about.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Life, Wells

• If somebody says, "I love you," to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? "I love you, too."

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Love, Life, Pistols

  "Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (Opinions)". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, May 1974.

• Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it.

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  Life, Would Be

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.67, Seven Stories Press

• The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.

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  Life, Art, Soul

• A man without a home can't be lost.

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  Life, Home, Men

• Love is where you find it.

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  Life, Love Is

• I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, "Please - a little less love, and a little more common decency."

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  Life, Breakup, Fighting

  Kurt Vonnegut (2010). “Slapstick or Lonesome No More”, p.2, Random House

• I'd like to teach Iraq about Democracy because we're so experienced with it. First they should know that after 100 years they should free their slaves. Then after 150 years they should give their women the right to vote. Oh, and of course when they start it all they should begin with some genocide and ethnic cleansing.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Life, Years, Iraq

• I am better now. Word of honour: I am better now.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Life, Honour, Better Now

• Make love when you can. It's good for you.

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  Life, Sex And Love, Making Love

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.8, Dial Press

• Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.

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  Life, Thinking, Should Have

  Kurt Vonnegut (1973). “Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!”, Dell

• Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.

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  Life, Love Is, Thinking

  "Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Prologue), 1976.

• ... life, by definition, is never still.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Life, Definitions, Still Life

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.90, Dial Press

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